Custom mod categories gone after testing MO beta

[keithinhanoi]

I've been testing the newest MO beta, v1.2.2 as of writing this, and because I didn't want to install over my current MO v1.1.2 folder, I thought it would be okay just to rename it to ModOrganizerOLD - but still keeping it in the .../Skyrim directory - temporarily while testing the 1.2.2 beta.

 

After I was finished with the testing, I renamed my original MO folder back to ModOrganizer, as it it was before.

 

Somehow, all of my custom-added mod categories have been reset to defaults, and all the mods to which I had assigned custom categories now have no categories assigned to them.

 

I assume there's no way to fix this, but to avoid this in future, can anyone tell me where MO stores the custom category data so that I can back it up before I do any further testing of or upgrade to newer versions of MO?

 

Thanks in advance!

[Tannin]

Custom categories are stored in the file categories.dat.

[DoubleYou]

When you do that type of thing (I did it myself), copy your modorganizer.ini and categories.dat into the other Mod Organizer install. Categories.dat stores your custom categories (if they exist).

[keithinhanoi]

Great, thanks to both of you!

 

I still have no idea how it got deleted, but I'll definitely make sure to keep a back up of it after I recreate all my categories.